Private Texts Reveal That Madison Cornbread Called Herself an "Insurrectionist," Joked About the Riot, Praised Trump, and Called the J6 Committee Phony Before Starting the Madison Cornbread Image Makeover Media Blitz

Exclusive from Mollie Hemingway and Tristan Justice.

Note that in the story, Hemingway and Justice refer to Madison Cornbread by her government name, "Cassie Hutchinson."

Nearly 18 months of private chats between friends from the Trump White House show that Jan. 6 Committee star witness Cassidy Hutchinson dramatically changed her story about what she knew and how she felt about what she witnessed as a White House staffer.

When Hutchinson testified in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's Soviet-style show trial last month, the former White House aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said she "still struggle[s] to work through the emotions" of Jan. 6.

"As an American, I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic," Hutchinson said. "We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie, and it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest."

In her two hours of testimony, Hutchinson made a series of blockbuster claims incriminating former President Donald Trump, her White House colleagues, and even her direct superiors over their conduct as security at the U.S. Capitol was compromised by a horde of demonstrators. Relying on third-party conversations, Hutchinson claimed the president tried to violently hijack the presidential limousine to drive himself down to the rioters on Jan. 6. The claim was denounced as fabricated hours later. She said the president was aware that White House protesters were well-equipped with deadly weapons and still invited them onto government grounds anyway dismissing security concerns, never mind the fact that only a few face charges. And she said former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone personally warned her not to allow Trump to go to the Capitol or "We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable." Never mind Cipollone was not at the White House when Hutchinson claimed, according to multiple witnesses. Former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann also disputed another claim by Hutchinson, saying he wrote a note she took credit for.

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Yet in a series of private communications from December 2020 through May 2021, shared exclusively with The Federalist, Hutchinson commiserated with other targets of the probe about how little information she had about any wrongdoing that day, and lamented how corrupt the politicized committee was. Far from being upset with Trump, Hutchinson repeatedly spoke in favor of him and his presidency.

"I would rather shoot myself dead into the Potomac than see marine one flying around this city without 45 again," Hutchinson wrote in one message nearly three months after the Capitol riot.

In November 2021, Hutchinson was among the first former White House staffers to be subpoenaed by the Select Committee. In the weeks and months following, Hutchinson continued to disparage the politicized committee in private, and repeatedly joked about the same riot she now says leaves her with emotional scars today. Six days after she was issued a subpoena, Hutchinson called the Jan. 6 panel a "phony committee." Around the same time, she told a former colleague her testimony would have nothing to offer.

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Hutchinson praised the tweet, adding, "When we win again, we're making her comms director Or press sec." Back in December 2020, Hutchinson had been happy to use the phrase "STOP THE STEAL" to describe efforts to contest the 2020 election. A Jan. 5, 2021, tweet notes that she stopped by the Capitol, where Trump supporters had gathered. "Gotta see our PEOPLE," she wrote. In dramatic contrast to her new claims of being "disgusted" with the Jan. 6 riot, in November 2021, she joked about trying to invade a friend's apartment in a building called Park Chelsea. "Let's have an insurrection at parc Chelsea," she wrote. "How about ... jan 6, 2023?"

More, including texts, at the link.

posted by Ace at 05:16 PM

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